opinions

Sometimes I wish I lived in a state (or even city) where more people understood my point of view.  I heard from someone that after Obama was announced as the next president of the United States, people took the streets in Portland, Oregon to celebrate.  Here in Indiana I had to celebrate with my family from the comfort of my living room.  I couldn’t even call my friends because many of them are McCain supporters.

I’m not saying that I have anything against that.  I believe that everyone is entitled to their opinion and it isn’t my place to try to sway or persuade anyone to my side.  I just feel outnumbered a lot and would love to feel like I ‘fit in’ with my friends, or even just the random people I see on the street.  Here many of them have McCain posters in their yards, stickers on their cars and buttons on their coats.  And at school I was told by a friend that I couldn’t sit with her the day I was wearing my Obama t-shirt.  I know she was joking, but many people around here wouldn’t have been.  I need a more liberal state.  Or maybe I just need to move back to Bloomington, one of the most liberal towns in Indiana.

That actually doesn’t sound half bad.  I’ve missed Yogi’s, Jiffy Treat and Upland Brewery.